Adele opens up on postpartum depression: 'It frightened me'

Adele.
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Adele's plans for the future include a possible appearance on Broadway and singing until she's 70 — but probably not having another child. In the singer's interview for Vanity Fair's December cover story, she admitted that she is "too scared" to have another child after her first experience with her now 4-year-old son, Angelo. "I had really bad postpartum depression after I had my son, and it frightened me," Adele said.

While in the throes of postpartum depression, Adele said she initially dismissed the suggestions of Simon Konecki, her longtime boyfriend and Angelo's father, to "talk to other women who were pregnant." But, she said, she eventually found herself "gravitating towards pregnant women and other women with children" anyway, because they're "a bit more patient":

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